General and Systematic Veterinary Pharmacology

INSCRIPTION

• This consists of the names and quantities of drugs in full English or more quickly in latin abbreviations. But use of latin in writing prescription is an old tradition that should be abandoned: modern physicians and pharmacists are not at home in this language and are therefore more liable to make errors.
• The use of abbreviations is universal but it must be used clearly jot in an ambiguous manner.
• It is usual to build inscription on four main pillars.
  • Basis: This is the main active agent of the prescription
  • Adjuvant: This is the substances which is used to aid the action of the basis.
  • Corrective: Purpose of this is to modify or correct an undesirable action of the basis.
  • Vehicle or excipient: The different substances use to dilute the active ingredient usually in a convenient and pleasant manner.
• The four guiding principles are based on a hypothesis attributed to Asclepiads a greet physician who settled in rome during te second century B.C., This hypothesis suggests that medicine should curare (cure) cito (quickly) Tuto (safely) et ( and Jacundi (pleasantly).